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The profligate son : or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain / Nicola Phillips.

by Phillips, Nicola (Nicola Jane)

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Basic Books, c2013.

Jackson, William, 1791-1828.

Youth -- Great Britain -- Conduct of life -- 19th century.

Criminals -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Penal transportation -- Australia.

Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

9780465008926 (hc.)

0465008925 (hc.)

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True story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain

xix, 332 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index.

Introduction: the profligate heir -- The sins of the father -- An improper education -- Lessons in love and life in London -- An officer and a gentleman -- Boarding the fleet -- To the brink of destruction -- A mansion of misery -- Cheltenham and Gloucester unmasked -- Retribution -- A contagious distemper -- Of gentlemen and convicts -- Ruined suitors.

"Imprudent spending, incessant partying, and sexual adventures were a sure sign to his father that the boy was on the slippery slope to ruin. But to his friends, William seemed to be a charming, impeccably dressed young gentleman with enviable seductive skills who was willing to defend his honor in duels. Mr. Jackson and his son viewed each other across a generational gap that neither could bridge, and their flawed relationship had catastrophic consequences for their family.The author reconstructs this family tragedy from a recently discovered trove of letters and court documents. Young William grew up in great comfort and was sent to the best schools in the country. But when the family moved to London, the teenager rebelled against the loneliness and often brutal regimes of public schooling and escaped to explore the pleasures of the town with his wealthy friends leading him into disastrous levels of debt that resulted in his imprisonment and ever more illegal efforts to satisfy his creditors, which appalled his prudent, sternly moralistic father. Mr. Jackson decided that the only way to combat his son's wayward behavior was to completely cut him off. In doing so, he condemned William to repeated imprisonment and a perilous voyage to an Australian penal colony. Literary nonfiction as dramatic as any Dickens novel, The Profligate Son transports readers from the steamy streets of India and the elegant squares and seedy brothels of London to the sunbaked shores of Australia, tracing the arc of a life long buried in history"--Provided by publisher.

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